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Kylie
Ann Minogue (pronounced: /mɪn'əʉg/, to rhyme with
"vogue") (born May 28, 1968) is an Australian singer
and actress. She rose to prominence in the late
1980s as a result of her role in the Australian
television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing
her career as a pop singer and recording artist.
Signed
to a contract by British songwriters and producers
Stock, Aitken & Waterman, Minogue achieved a string
of hit records throughout the world, but her
popularity began to decline by the early 1990s,
leading her to part company from Stock, Aitken and
Waterman in 1992. For several years she attempted to
establish herself as an independent performer and
songwriter, distancing herself from her earlier
work. Her projects were widely publicised, but
despite a couple of hit singles, her albums failed
to attract a substantial audience, resulting in the
lowest sales of her career.
In
2000, she returned to popularity as a dance/pop
music artist and became well-known for her
provocative music videos and expensively mounted
stage shows. Minogue has established one of the
longest and most successful careers as a performer
in contemporary pop music, and in Europe and
Australia has become one of her generation's most
recognisable celebrities and sex symbols. In
Australia, after being dismissed early in her career
by many critics, she has been acclaimed for her
achievements; she holds the record for the highest
concert ticket sales for a female performer, and is
the only female performer to place nine singles at
number one on the Australian singles chart.
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Early life and Neighbours
Kylie
Minogue in "SkyWays" in 1980.Born in Melbourne,
Australia, Minogue is the eldest of three children,
her sister Dannii Minogue also being a pop singer.
The Minogue sisters began their careers as children
on Australian television, and from the age of 11
Kylie appeared in soap operas such as Skyways, The
Sullivans and The Henderson Kids without attracting
much attention. Dannii became successful as a
regular performer on the weekly music program Young
Talent Time, in which Kylie gave her first singing
performance in 1983. Kylie was overshadowed by her
younger sister until achieving success in 1986 with
her role in the soap opera Neighbours.
Minogue
played the character of Charlene Mitchell; a
storyline that created a romance and eventual
marriage between her character and that played by
her real-life boyfriend Jason Donovan culminated in
a wedding episode in 1987 that attracted a record
audience (see Scott and Charlene). Her popularity in
Australia was demonstrated when she became the first
person to win four Logie Awards in one event,
including the "Gold Logie" as the country's "Most
Popular Television Performer", with the result
determined by Public Vote. Neighbours began
screening in the United Kingdom in 1987 and achieved
high ratings.
Recording and performing career
Stock, Aitken and Waterman — 1987 to 1992
During
a charity event in Melbourne with other Neighbours
cast members, Minogue performed Little Eva's "The
Loco-Motion" and was signed to a recording contract
with Mushroom Records in 1987. Released as a single,
and retitled "Locomotion", the Australian recording
spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian
music charts, and was the year's highest selling
single. Its success resulted in Minogue travelling
to London to work with Stock, Aitken & Waterman. Her
first album, Kylie, a collection of dance songs,
reached number one on the British albums chart and
became the year's highest selling album. It sold
over 7 million copies worldwide, with most sales
occurring in Europe and Asia, and it contained six
hit singles, including the biggest hit, "I Should Be
So Lucky". The United States was the only major
record market in which the album did not sell
strongly, although the version of "The Loco-Motion"
(re-recorded in th UK) reached number three on the
US Billboard Magazine Singles Chart. In late 1988
Minogue left Neighbours to concentrate fully on her
music career.
A duet
with Jason Donovan, titled "Especially For You" was
a major hit in Britain in early 1989. The critic
Kevin Killian wrote that it was "majestically
awful... makes the Diana Ross, Lionel Richie
"Endless Love" sound like Mahler". Another critic
named her "The Singing Budgie", in part because she
is only 5ft 1in (1.55 m) tall and this tag continued
to be used by her detractors over the coming years.
Chris True's comment about the album Kylie for All
Music Guide suggests that Minogue's appeal
transcended the limitations of her music, by noting
that "her cuteness makes these rather vapid tracks
bearable".
Her
follow up album, Enjoy Yourself (1989) was a success
in the United Kingdom and Australia, and contained
several hit singles, but it failed in the United
States, and Minogue was dropped by her American
record company Geffen Records. She embarked on her
first concert tour in the United Kingdom, France,
Belgium and Australia, where Melbourne's The Herald
Sun wrote that it was "time to ditch the snobbery
and face facts—the kid's a star". Minogue had become
Stock, Aitken and Waterman's highest selling act, so
in the face of widespread comment that the second
album was a poor imitation of the first, it was
decided to adjust the overall style of her music.
Rhythm
of Love (1990) presented a more sophisticated and
adult style of dance music and also marked the first
signs of rebellion against her production team and
the "girl-next-door" image. Determined to be
accepted by a more mature audience, Minogue took
control of her music videos, starting with "Better
the Devil You Know", and presented herself as a
sexually aware adult. A relationship with INXS lead
singer Michael Hutchence furthered her attempts to
gain acceptance as a mature performer, with
Hutchence saying his favourite hobby was "corrupting
Kylie", and writing the INXS hit song "Suicide
Blonde" in reference to her.
The
singles from Rhythm of Love sold well in Europe and
Australia and were popular in British nightclubs
where Minogue started to be regarded as fashionable
by the older audience she had targeted. When
"Shocked" reached the British Top 10 in 1991, she
became the first recording artist to place their
first 13 single releases in the Top 10.
In
1991, Minogue participated in a live-concert tribute
to John Lennon, known as Lennon - A Tribute. Her
performance of The Beatles' "Help" was well received
by the audience and despite the presence of such
established performers as U2 and Roy Orbison,
Minogue generated positive comments from the British
media.
Minogue's contract had been for three albums, but
she was persuaded to record a fourth. Let's Get To
It (1991) was designed to broaden her appeal by
presenting a diverse range of ballads and slower
dance songs, but despite positive reviews it failed
to make the British Top 10. Still, a British concert
tour in late 1991 sold out. In Australia her
popularity of the previous years diminished, and
when the Australian public appeared to have grown
indifferent, her supporters described her as a
victim of tall poppy syndrome.
By this
time Minogue had fulfilled the requirements of her
contract and elected not to renew it. She had often
expressed the viewpoint that she was stifled by
Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and later compared the
experience to her time with Neighbours, saying all
they wanted her to do was "learn your lines...
perform your lines, no time for questions, promote
the product". Realizing that her fans were growing
apathetic towards the Stock, Aitken and Waterman
formula, and that she could only develop as an
artist if she broke away from them, she decided to
leave. She agreed to record three new songs to be
included on the Greatest Hits album, which was
released to coincide with her departure from them in
1992. The album reached number one in Britain, but
the new singles were only minor hits.
Deconstruction—1993 to 1998
Minogue's subsequent signing with Deconstruction
Records was highly touted in the music media as the
beginning of a new phase in her career, but the
self-titled Kylie Minogue (1994) received mixed
reviews. Collaborations with artists such as Pet
Shop Boys and M People disappointed both critics and
record buyers. The album was a moderate success and
the single "Confide In Me" spent five weeks at
number one in Australia. When the singles "Put
Yourself In My Place" and "Where is the Feeling"
failed to make the top ten in Britain or Australia,
some commentators predicted the end of her career.
Minogue was unhappy with the finished product,
describing it later as "a musical bridge over
troubled waters—but one that I had to endure [to be
able to make Impossible Princess]".
Australian artist Nick Cave had been interested in
working with Minogue since hearing "Better the Devil
You Know", saying it contained "one of pop music's
most violent and distressing lyrics" and "when Kylie
Minogue sings these words, there is an innocence to
her that makes the horror of this chilling lyric all
the more compelling". "Where The Wild Roses Grow"
(1995), was a brooding ballad whose lyrics narrated
a murder from the points of view of both the
murderer (Cave), and his victim (Minogue), and its
success demonstrated that Minogue could be accepted
outside of her established genre as a dance artist.
It received widespread attention in Europe, where it
reached the top 10 in several countries, and acclaim
in Australia where it reached number two, and won
ARIA Awards for "Song of the Year" and "Best Pop
Release". She performed it with Cave at the
Australian summer rock festival, "The Big Day Out"
before a crowd of alternative music fans, and was
well received. She also appeared with Cave during
several of his concerts in small venues throughout
Europe, which gave her more experience performing
outside of the dance/pop genre and before audiences
that were not necessarily her fans. She recited the
lyrics to "I Should Be So Lucky" as poetry in
London's Royal Albert Hall "Poetry Jam", at the
suggestion of Cave, and later credited him with
giving her the confidence to express herself
artistically, saying: "He taught me to never veer
too far from who I am, but to go further, try
different things, and never lose sight of myself at
the core. For me, the hard part was unleashing the
core of myself and being totally truthful in my
music".
By 1997
Minogue was in a relationship with the French
photographer Stephane Sednaoui, who described her as
a combination "geisha and manga superheroine". He
began taking photographs of her that downplayed her
glamour, with the aim of attracting a more
sophisticated and mature audience, and she drew
inspiration from artists such as Shirley Manson and
Garbage, Björk, Tricky and U2, and Japanese pop
musicians such as Pizzicato Five and Towa Tei (with
whom she would later collaborate on the singles "GBI:
German Bold Italic" and "Sometime Samurai").
Impossible Princess (1997) featured collaborations
with musicians such as Manic Street Preachers, and
Minogue contributed the majority of the lyrics.
Largely a dance album, its style was not represented
by its first single "Some Kind Of Bliss", and
Minogue countered questions that she was trying to
become an indie artist. She told Music Week, "I have
to keep telling people that this isn't an indie-guitar
album. I'm not about to pick up a guitar and rock."
Billboard Magazine described the album as "stunning"
and concluded that "it's a golden commercial
opportunity for a major [record company] with vision
and energy [to release it in the United States]. A
sharp ear will detect a kinship between "Impossible
Princess" and Madonna's hugely successful new album,
Ray of Light". In Britain, Music Week gave a
negative assessment, "Kylie's vocals take on a
stroppy edge ... but not strong enough to do much".
It
became the lowest selling album of her career in
Britain, but was her highest selling album in
Australia since her debut album, with sales boosted
by a highly successful live tour. In reviewing her
show, The Times wrote of her ability to "mask her
thin, often nondescript voice with musical diversity
and brittle charisma and genuinely great pop songs
by any standard", and a live album recorded during
her tour, titled Intimate and Live, was successful
in Australia. She maintained her high profile in
Australia with live performances, including the 1998
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, the opening of
Fox Studios in Sydney in 1999, where she performed
Marilyn Monroe's "Diamonds are a Girl's Best
Friend", and a Christmas concert in Dili, East Timor
in association with the United Nations Peace-Keeping
Forces.
Parlophone—1999 to the present
Minogue
and Deconstruction Records parted company and she
signed with Parlophone in April 1999. Her album
Light Years (2000) was strongly influenced by 1970s
disco artists, such as Donna Summer and Village
People, and included several songs written by Robbie
Williams and Guy Chambers who imbued their lyrics
with humour. New Musical Express wrote: "Kylie's
capacity for reinvention is staggering" and
summarised the album as "sheer joy" and "what she
does best". It received the strongest reviews of her
career and quickly became a success throughout
Europe, Asia and Australia, selling over 2 million
copies worldwide. The single "Spinning Around"
became her first British number one in 10 years, and
its accompanying video, featuring Minogue in
revealing gold hot pants, received widespread
television airplay. The subsequent single releases,
including the duet "Kids" with Robbie Williams, also
sold strongly. She joined Madonna as the second
artist to achieve British number one singles in the
1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
She
played at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where she
performed a cover version of the ABBA hit "Dancing
Queen" and her then-current single, "On A Night Like
This". She then embarked upon a concert tour, On A
Night Like This, which played to sell-out crowds in
Britain and Australia, where she sold over 200,000
tickets and set an Australian record for a female
artist. Her 6 planned Melbourne shows were increased
to 22 due to public demand. Inspired by Broadway
musicals, it featured elaborate sets such as the
deck of an ocean liner, an Art Deco New York City
skyline, and the interior of a space ship, and
Minogue was praised for her new material and her
reinterpretations of some of her biggest hits,
turning "I Should Be So Lucky" into a torch song and
"Better The Devil You Know" into a 1940s big band
number. She won a "Mo Award" for live entertainment
in Australia, as "Performer of the Year". Following
the tour she was asked by a Seattle
Post-Intelligencer journalist what she thought was
her greatest strength, and replied, "That I am an
all-rounder. If I was to choose any one element of
what I do, I don't know if I would excel at any one
of them. But put all of them together, and I know
what I'm doing."
In 2001
she released the album Fever, which retained some
disco elements and combined them with 1980s
electropop. The first single, "Can't Get You Out Of
My Head", became the biggest success of her career,
reaching number one in over 40 countries, and
selling more than 4 million copies worldwide. The
album's success was equally widespread, and after
extensive airplay by American radio, Capitol Records
released it in the US in 2002. It attracted
favourable comment, with Rolling Stone calling it
"campy as a tent full of Boy Scouts and yet easy on
the cheese", while Popmatters described it as "a
perfect album of gorgeous dance music". She also
attracted some scathing commentary, such as from
Launch's Bob Gulla who wrote: "she'll do virtually
anything to get our attention. Not since Pia Zadora
have we seen a more vacant talent grab... an
astoundingly bland helping of hollow dance pop
grooves and nauseating pleas for sex ... it's so
desperately lightweight it's in imminent danger of
disintegrating altogether". The album debuted on the
American Billboard chart at number 3, and the single
reached number 7. "In Your Eyes", "Love At First
Sight" and "Come Into My World" were substantial
hits throughout the world, and Minogue established a
presence in the mainstream American market,
achieving particular success in the club scene. In
2003 she received a Grammy Award nomination for
"Best Dance Recording" for "Love At First Sight",
and the following year won the same award for "Come
Into My World".
Minogue's former stylist and creative director
William Baker explained that the music videos for
the Fever album were inspired by science fiction
films—specifically those by Stanley Kubrick—and
accentuated the electropop elements of the music by
using dancers in the style of Kraftwerk. Alan
MacDonald, the designer of the 2002 Fever tour,
brought those elements into the stage show which was
based around a framework of seven iconic female
images, drawing from Minogue's past incarnations.
The show opened with Minogue as a space age vamp,
which she described as "Queen of Metropolis with her
drones", through to scenes inspired by Kubrick's A
Clockwork Orange, followed by the various personas
of Minogue's career. Minogue said that she was
finally able to express herself the way she wanted,
and that she had always been "a showgirl at heart".
The tour was a commercial and critical success, and
in 2002, Q magazine named Minogue in their list of
the "50 Bands To See Before You Die."
Her
next album, Body Language (2003), was released
following an invitation-only concert, titled Money
Can't Buy, at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The
event marked the presentation of a new visual style,
designed by Minogue and Baker, inspired in part by
1960s icon Brigitte Bardot, about whom Minogue
commented: "I just tended to think of BB as, well,
she's a sexpot, isn't she? She's one of the greatest
pinups. But she was fairly radical in her own way at
that time. And we chose to reference the period,
which was ... a perfect blend of coquette and rock
and roll."
The
show attracted mixed reviews, with the main
criticisms being that nothing substantially new was
presented, and that the new songs did not match the
appeal of her previous hits. Despite this, the
concert was made into a successful television
special that drew high ratings.
The
album downplayed the disco style and Minogue said
she was inspired by 1980s artists such as Scritti
Politti, Human League and Prince, blending their
styles with elements of hip hop. It received some of
the most positive reviews of her career with
Billboard Magazine writing of "Minogue's knack for
picking great songs and producers". All Music
described it as "a near perfect pop record... Body
Language is what happens when a dance-pop diva takes
the high road and focuses on what's important
instead of trying to shock herself into continued
relevance" Sales in the United Kingdom and Australia
were relatively low, despite the success of its
first single, "Slow" and in the United States the
album made little impression, although the singles
became major club hits. In November 2004, "Slow" was
nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of
"Best Dance Recording".
As of
2005, Minogue has sold more than 40 million singles
and 25 million albums worldwide, and has had at
least one number one hit in over 45 countries. She
released her second official greatest hits album on
November 22, 2004, entitled Ultimate Kylie, along
with her music videos on a DVD compilation of the
same title. The album introduced her single "I
Believe in You", co-written with Jake Shears and
Babydaddy from the Scissor Sisters. It became her
28th British top 10 single, making her the second
most successful female performer on the British
charts, behind Madonna. A second single, "Giving You
Up", reached the British Top 10 in March 2005.
A tour
named Showgirl, The Greatest Hits was announced in
early 2005. In April 2005, Minogue and her creative
director William Baker ended their professional
relationship, with Minogue commenting that it had
been planned to coincide with the Ultimate Kylie
album and the tour, and that the two remained
friends. Planned as the most extensive tour of her
career, and intended to play to over 700,000 people
worldwide, Showgirl, The Greatest Hits was a success
in Europe, however in May 2005 the remainder of the
tour was postponed when Minogue was diagnosed with
breast cancer.
Film
career
In
1989, Minogue starred in The Delinquents, which told
the story of a young girl growing up in Australia
during the late 1950s. Its release coincided with
her popularity in Neighbours, and while both the
film and Minogue's performance were the subject of
derisive comments by critics, it was a commercial
success. She appeared as Cammy in the action film
Street Fighter (1994), based on the fighting game
series of the same name. The film did nothing to
further her acting career, was dismissed by fans of
the series, and received poor reviews by critics,
with The Washington Post's Richard Harrington
calling her "the worst actress in the
English-speaking world." Subsequent films such as
Bio-Dome (1996), Sample People and Cut (both 2000)
failed to attract an audience.
Australian film director Baz Luhrmann, impressed by
her Intimate and Live tour, cast Minogue in Moulin
Rouge! (2001) where she played the part of Absinthe,
the Green Fairy, singing a line from The Sound of
Music. This cameo remains her most widely seen film
performance. In 2004 she provided the voice of
"Florence" in a film based on The Magic Roundabout.
Image and celebrity status
Throughout her professional life, Minogue has been
the subject of intense media interest in both the
United Kingdom and Australia, which has remained
constant even while her success as a recording
artist has fluctuated. Her efforts to be taken
seriously as a musician have sometimes been hindered
by her high profile as noted by The Australian, who
wrote in 1997, "When you have to lug around an image
the size of Kylie's, it's difficult for any music
you produce to match the hype—especially in a
country that gives scant credibility to pop". Her
relationships, including her current relationship
with French actor Olivier Martinez, have been
extensively reported as well.
Minogue
is regarded as a gay icon, which she encourages with
comments such as "I am not a traditional gay icon.
There's been no tragedy in my life, only tragic
outfits". While part of her appeal lies in her
flamboyant costumes, her confident sexual posturing
and her sense of fun, she acknowledges the gay
community throughout the world by performing at gay
venues and events, and by supporting AIDS causes.
She has said that she believes gay fans responded to
her apparent distress when the news media began
heavily criticising her in 1989, and that those fans
have remained loyal, explaining, "My gay audience
has been with me from the beginning... they kind of
adopted me".
Minogue
has utilised the medium of the music video as an
effective way of promoting her image, and has
consistently worked at creating and evolving her
visual representation. Her earliest videos portrayed
her as a "girl-next-door" who was innocent and
somewhat gauche but when she took control of her
portrayal in 1990, she developed a more adult and
provocative image. This caused her to be compared
unfavourably to Madonna. Minogue admitted that she
was an influence, but as her confidence grew she
established a coquettish persona that differed
considerably from that of Madonna's sexual
aggressor. Minogue presents herself as a more
passive object of desire, and frequently imbues her
performances with camp elements and humour. Madonna
acknowledged Minogue by wearing a "Kylie Minogue"
shirt for a performance at the MTV Awards in 2000.
In
several of her music videos, Minogue has touched on
adult themes—an interracial relationship in "Better
The Devil You Know", lesbian posturing and drag
queens in "What Do I Have To Do", telephone sex in
"Confide In Me" and prostitution in "On A Night Like
This". She performed a slow strip tease in the
Barbarella inspired "Put Yourself In My Place", and
wore revealing costumes in many of her videos, most
notably "Spinning Around" and "Can't Get You Out Of
My Head". She satirised her image in the video for
"Did It Again", in which the four major incarnations
of her career, "Indie Kylie", "Dance Kylie", "Sex
Kylie" and "Cute Kylie" battled for supremacy.
In
1993, Baz Luhrmann introduced Minogue to the
photographer Bert Stern, notable for his work with
Marilyn Monroe. Stern photographed her in Los
Angeles and, comparing her to Monroe, commented that
she had a "similar vulnerability and awareness of
the camera". She has gained credibility by her
association with people such as fashion designer
Jean Paul Gaultier, photographer Stephane Sednaoui,
and designer John Galliano, who described her as a
"blend of Lolita and Barbarella".
During
her career she has chosen photographers who attempt
to create a new "look" for her, and the resulting
photographs have appeared in a variety of magazines,
from the cutting edge The Face to the more
traditionally sophisticated Vogue and Vanity Fair,
making the Minogue face and name known to a broad
group of people who might never buy one of her
records. William Baker has suggested that this is
part of the reason she has entered in the mainstream
pop culture of Europe more successfully than many
other pop singers who concentrate simply on selling
records. She has appeared in guest roles in
television series such as The Vicar of Dibley and
Men Behaving Badly in Britain, and Kath & Kim in
Australia, that have capitalised on her celebrity
status and image for comedic effect. In the latter
she played a Melbourne teenager on her wedding day,
referencing her role as Charlene in Neighbours.
Despite
her commercial success, and her acceptance by a
large audience as a contemporary sex symbol, her
critics describe her willingness to display her body
as an attempt to disguise a lack of talent. Her
detractors, such as those discussed in the book La
La La, have described her as a "one dimensional
performer" and "pretty, but mindless and talentless".
Miki Berenyi of the group Lush said "I have a
massive problem with her because she epitomises the
acceptable role ... it's a shame she gets so much
credibility when there are so many women worth a
hundred times that. It's war—you shouldn't stick up
for Kylie, she should be fought at every turn". She
continues to attract discussion, both positive and
negative, and in Paul Morley's study of the
evolution of pop music, Words And Music: A History
Of Pop In The Shape Of A City, Minogue is the
vehicle by which pop is explored.
Minogue
has often spoken of the stability of the team she
works within. Her parents, Ron and Carol Minogue,
are actively involved in her career; her father, an
accountant, is her financial advisor and her mother
has joined her on each of her tours. She has been
managed by Terry Blamey since 1987 and the close
network, along with her Stock, Aitken and Waterman
origins, have led to comments that she is
"manufactured", an assessment which she has freely
admitted is partly accurate, saying, "If you're part
of a record company, I think to a degree it's fair
to say that you're a manufactured product. You're a
product and you're selling a product. It doesn't
mean that you're not talented and that you don't
make creative and business decisions about what you
will and won't do and where you want to go...
Ultimately, yes, it's my name and I have to deliver
the goods. But it doesn't happen without a team. So
I try and work with the best people I can and take
from them what I can. Hopefully I enhance what they
do as well".
William
Baker has described her status as a sex symbol as a
"double edged sword" observing that "we always
attempted to use her sex appeal as an enhancement of
her music and to sell a record. But now it has
become in danger of eclipsing what she actually is:
a pop singer". Minogue has suggested that although
her career will inevitably change direction she
expects to continue as a singer, and move away from
the "sex-pot" persona she has created. In 2003 she
received positive reviews for some low key
performances in Paris clubs where she performed jazz
standards, and she indicated she may take her career
in this direction. Rather than identify herself as a
particular type of singer, she has assessed herself
with the comment, "now more than ever, I consider
myself a performer... on stage is where I have given
and received so much energy and enthusiasm".
Cancer
On May
17, 2005 it was reported that Minogue had been
diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, and would
receive medical treatment in Melbourne. The
remainder of her Showgirl, The Greatest Hits world
tour was postponed and she withdrew from a
participating at the Glastonbury Festival.
The
announcement of Minogue's cancer diagnosis resulted
in a brief but intense period of media coverage,
particularly in Australia where it was the lead news
story of the day. As media and fans began to
congregate outside the Minogue residence in
Melbourne, the Victorian Premier Steve Bracks stated
to the international media, that any disruption to
the Minogue family's rights as Australians would not
be tolerated. Minogue underwent surgery on May 21.
Friends such as Olivia Newton-John, herself a
survivor of breast cancer, urged the media and fans
to respect Minogue's privacy. However, it was only
after it was announced that the surgery had been
successful that the intense scrutiny of the
situation began to diminish. In the days following
her surgery, it was reported that Minogue had
commenced radiotherapy as part of her treatment
regimen.
Minogue
recently made a public 'thank you' statement, and
urged fans 'not to worry'. She later added that
further treatment was to be pursued in Europe.
On
Friday 8th July '05, Minogue made her first public
appearance since being diagnosed with breast cancer
in May, and won the hearts of even more people by
making it an informal visit to a children's cancer
ward at Melbourne's (Australia) Royal Children's
Hospital. Looking radiant and the picture of health,
despite still being in recovery from her own cancer
treatment, her visit also revealed the cat and mouse
game she has been playing with the media which has
left everyone guessing where she has been staying;
it now transpires she has been in Australia all
along!
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